Steinberger

I'm saving up for a new guitar the model i have my heart set on is The Steinberger Synapse Demon i plan on purchasing this sometime during the summer when i have a job but before i buy it i was wondering if anybody has any experience with the guitar and if you do please give me ur 2 cents on the instrument. I would have sex with and eat this guitar jeffrey dahmer style if i could.

Yeah dude, you're gonna have a lot more luck asking these kinda questions on a guitar forum and not a general music site where half the people don't even play instruments and then half the people that do don't even play guitar.
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People may notice I barely post here at PA anymore, it's partly because I spend most of my time at guitar forums instead of PA nowadays.

But anyway, while I'm here, never having played the guitar in question, I can still throw in my 2 cents anyway.
What you're looking it, is a 28.5/8 inch guitar.
If you've never played an extended scale guitar before, there are quite a few things you need to be careful of.

One, is that on a baritone scale scale sounds quite a bit different to a 25.5 inch scale guitar.
Lower notes take on a snappier, brighter quality that enables greater clarity, but this has the effect of making your unwound strings, particularly the high E string, sound quite sharp and piercing. Some people compensate with having amplifiers with a dark voicing, but I myself just don't like the way a guitar with anything over 26.5 inch scale length sounds. I frequently solo, so that piercing high E string sounds bad to me.
Bigger strings can counteract this somewhat and I stress somewhat because you'll need huge strings to truly reduce the extra treble response of a baritone scale, but you may be a light gauge person, so bear that in mind.

Another thing to note, is that if you like playing technical death metal or something like that, where you might be constantly making big stretches on the lower frets, a long scale guitar isn't for you. As the scale increases, so does the space between each fret, hence you need to stretch further. If you play technical riffs like myself where some chords need huge stretches and you can only just manage them on a 25.5 inch scale guitar, then a baritone guitar is not for you I'm afraid, as you risk potentially injuring yourself trying to cover these stretches with an extended scale.

But of course, take into account too, it has the TranScale option which lets you adjust the scale length by moving a capo up and down the neck. Now, of course this means you can transpose your technical riffs 2-3 frets up the fretboard to make those stretches easier, at the expense of the notes not sound as low though.
Unlike a normal 25.5 inch scale guitar where you will have all 24 frets, on this guitar, once you decrease the scale length to 25.5 inches, you lose 2 frets from the range, which may, or may not bother you, depending on what you play. If you need a guitar that can handle 24 frets with a 25.5 inch scale guitar, this is not for you.
If you need a guitar with 24 frets with a 28.5/8 in scale and only need 22 frets for the 25.5 inch scale section, you will be okay with it.

They also come with EMG 81/85 pickups, which IMO sound too compressed. If you like more dynamics from your guitar, you wont like Active EMGs.
If you end up not liking them, try out Seymour Duncan Blackouts. They are similar in tone to active EMGs, but they are less compressed, have more headroom, are more dynamic, quieter and have a much better clean tone.

I really don't get the point of having a built in capo on this guitar, and as to why this might be a factor in why someone would want to buy it. Care to fill me in? ^^

tremulant wrote: I really don't get the point of having a built in capo on this guitar, and as to why this might be a factor in why someone would want to buy it. Care to fill me in? ^^

It's to change the scale length of the guitar to change the overall feel, the tone and the range, It's not a normal capo per se.

tremulant wrote: I really don't get the point of having a built in capo on this guitar, and as to why this might be a factor in why someone would want to buy it. Care to fill me in? ^^

Due to the long scale of the guitar you could for example tune it to D instead of E, using thicker strings than usual. Then, with that "capo" at the 2nd fret, you could turn it into a guitar with standard tuning, standard scale and 22 frets.

^ I guess so, but in a more "in a nutshell" way.